Re: Linux?s Remarkable Journey From One Dev's Hobby To 40 Million Lines Of Code - And Counting

From	Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Linux?s Remarkable Journey From One Dev's Hobby To 40 Million Lines Of Code - And Counting
Date	2025-07-03 22:31 +0000
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On Thu, 3 Jul 2025 10:50:20 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> Linux/s success is somewhat down to the fact that in the end, its
> easier these days to make money out of selling hardware or software
> subscriptions than software.

Services. The scarcity is not the software, but in the human skills
needed to get the most out of it. That’s what’s valuable and saleable.

> The desktop/workstation being the last bastion of windows and OS/X
> because it is the only platform that may be expected to run a
> diverse mix of specialist code.

Oddly enough, “specialist” code mainly runs on Linux these days.

<https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/nvidias-newest-top-tier-ai-supercomputers-deployed-for-the-first-time-grace-blackwell-ultra-superchip-systems-deployed-at-coreweave>

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Linux’s Remarkable Journey From One Dev's Hobby To 40 Million Lines Of Code - And Counting Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-03 00:19 +0000
  Re: Linux?s Remarkable Journey From One Dev's Hobby To 40 Million Lines Of Code - And Counting John McCue <jmclnx@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-07-03 01:36 +0000
    Re: Linux?s Remarkable Journey From One Dev's Hobby To 40 Million Lines Of Code - And Counting Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2025-07-02 18:53 -0700
      Re: Linux?s Remarkable Journey From One Dev's Hobby To 40 Million Lines Of Code - And Counting Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-03 03:38 +0000
    Linux’s Remarkable Journey From One Dev's Hobby To 40 Million Lines Of Code - And Counting Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-03 03:36 +0000
      Re: Linux?s Remarkable Journey From One Dev's Hobby To 40 Million Lines Of Code - And Counting John McCue <jmclnx@SPAMisBADgmail.com> - 2025-07-03 12:45 +0000
    Re: Linux?s Remarkable Journey From One Dev's Hobby To 40 Million Lines Of Code - And Counting The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-07-03 10:50 +0100
      Re: Linux?s Remarkable Journey From One Dev's Hobby To 40 Million Lines Of Code - And Counting Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-03 22:31 +0000

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